TMS zl Management and Configuration Guide ST.1.1.100226

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Glossary
to check a message’s data integrity as well as authenticate the sender. Some
protocols, such as EAP-MD5, require passwords to be transmitted as hashes
rather than in plaintext. For more information, see RFC 1321 at http://
www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt.
member A module that is part of an HA cluster.
metric A value between 0 and 15 that indicates the distance to the destination address.
The further a router is from the destination, the higher the metric.
MIB Management Information Base. A set of network objects that can be managed
with SNMP. For more information, see RFC 1213 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/
rfc1213.txt.
Microsoft
Windows VPN
client
Software that can be installed on a Windows workstation that allows remote
VPN access to the corporate network.
MIME header
flood
A type of attack or malfunction in which a message contains and excessive
amount Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers. A request
with a large number of headers can degrade server performance, possibly
causing a DoS.
misaligned time
stamp
A malformed packet in which the timestamp is not aligned on a 32-bit bound-
ary. The timestamp wraps around the boundary, so that the timestamp indica-
tors within a packet do not align with one another.
mirroring, local See local mirroring.
mirroring, remote See remote mirroring.
mode See operating mode.
monitor mode An operating mode in which the TMS zl Module acts as an offline IDS.
MS-CHAP Microsoft CHAP. The Microsoft implementation of CHAP. For more informa-
tion, see RFC 2759 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2759.txt.
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit. The MTU determines the size of the largest
packet that can pass through the Data Link Layer (Layer 2) of a connection.
multicast A send method wherein the packet is sent by one device and is destined for
multiple other devices.
multicast access
policy
A firewall access policy that applies to multicast traffic.